Synopsis
When winter begins, life is serene for a group of new-age Brooklynites living in a remote country farmhouse. Sex, drugs, yoga, and organic cooking absorb their days, safely tucked away from the stresses of urban life. But when a blackout of apocalyptic proportions strands them with no heat and no electricity during the coldest winter on record, their utopian commune is breached by anxiety and their idyllic harmony begins to lose its tune. As time wears on and the food supply dwindles, power struggles, jealousy, and desire threaten the group's ability to work together in order to survive.
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Cast
- Lindsay BurdgeMarie
- Paul ManzaPaul
- Samantha JacoberSam
- Jennifer KimJen
- Haruka HashimotoHaruka
- Monika HeidemannMonika
- Fonlin NyeuFonlin
- Luke SimonLuke
- Jeff ThropeJeff
- Matthew ChastainMatt
Recommendations
- 91
IndieWire
Dickinson's hauntingly naturalistic look at disgruntled young adults trapped in the country following an urban disaster plays like "Martha Marcy May Marlene" transported to a post-apocalyptic survival narrative -- with lots of yoga and sex. - 90
The New York Times
The glue holding the film together is Adam Newport-Berra's elegant hand-held cinematography, which captures changing shades of winter and the frightened faces in natural light with an astonishing intensity. - 30
Village Voice
Even when things start to go awry for our group (thanks to jealousy, illness, a dwindling food stock) Dickinson's anti-dramatic methodology proves ill-suited to the task of generating narrative interest. - 12
Slant Magazine
The film's interests are mainly relegated to wallowing in the frigid-starvation-suffering of its protagonists.
